I said, "Do you think the fellows that were drowned believed in special providence?
Only the other day a gentleman was telling me of a case of special providence.
He was a believer even in special providence, and he hoped for immortality.
The men they thus describe were not atheists; they were all believers in God, in special providence, and in the immortality of the soul.
As a rule, he is a believer in special providence, and is egotistic enough to suppose that everything that happens in the universe happens in reference to him.
We watered our crops all that we wished, and both whites and Indians acknowledged the event to be a special providence.
It seemed like a special providence that, just then, the lamp in the cabin should fall from its hangings, and leave us all in the dark.
It seemed like a special providence to provide necessaries for my family, and I accepted the offer.
Men find it so difficult now-a-days, that the great majority of civilized people believe in no special providence at all, and take refuge in the belief that the universe is ruled by something which they call law.
Does not an Almighty Will imply a special providence?
Some one was relating an anecdote of a narrow escape, and another remarked, "That's what I should call a special Providence.
You might as well say that this ship is run by special Providence, when, in fact, it is run by accurately gauged machinery, system, and rules.
Under the veil of a story, for instance, he aims a dart at the superstition of a special providence, which is an ineradicable part of the Christian faith.
Shall I keep him without food and clothes because I see no proof of a special providence?
A special providence, rather than a study of the universe, has been the secret of their devotion to "the unseen.
He considers too that the deity whose existence he has thus allowed, exercises a general but not a special providence;(471) the world being a machine moving by delegated powers without the divine interference.
Think of the egotism of the man who believes in special providence.
They must also believe in a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering God, in special providence, and in addition to all this they must practice a few ceremonies.
But if a man is killed by it, it becomes a special providence to him and to others who are thereby taught the insecurity of life.
In special providence we have only a more impressive manifestation of God's universal control.
Since nature is only the manifestation of God, special providence, miracle, and regeneration are simply different degrees of extraordinary nature.
Special providence is only an instance of God's particular providence which has special relation to us or makes peculiar impression upon us.
True, the law of miracles and of special providence is very different from the common course of nature; and, therefore, the one may for a time supersede the others.
Such events I call special providence; and I maintain that we cannot tell how frequently they may occur.
For God must know the individual or thing for which he provides, and if God has no knowledge of particulars, there can be no such thing as special providence.
The Aristotelians taught the eternity of the world, the immutability of natural law, God's ignorance of particulars and the absence of special Providence.
Crescas, we have seen, defends God's knowledge of particulars, hence he sees no difficulty in special providence on this score.
The prophets enjoy a special Providence; the pious and wise men come next; whereas a person who is ignorant and disobedient is neglected and treated like a lower animal, being left to the government of chance.
A part of the belief of John Elwell, the preacher, was an implicit confidence in the manifestation at times of what we call a "special providence.
The fundamental idea of a special Providence, is that he prevents accidents; but in spite of special Providence, accidents do occur.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "special providence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
